An attention model for the formation of collectives in real-world domains

04/30/2022
by   Adrià Fenoy, et al.
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We consider the problem of forming collectives of agents for real-world applications aligned with Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., shared mobility, cooperative learning). We propose a general approach for the formation of collectives based on a novel combination of an attention model and an integer linear program (ILP). In more detail, we propose an attention encoder-decoder model that transforms a collective formation instance to a weighted set packing problem, which is then solved by an ILP. Results on two real-world domains (i.e., ridesharing and team formation for cooperative learning) show that our approach provides solutions that are comparable (in terms of quality) to the ones produced by state-of-the-art approaches specific to each domain. Moreover, our solution outperforms the most recent general approach for forming collectives based on Monte Carlo tree search.

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